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Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress

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Overview:

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post.

You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.

Now, you can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.

Features:

  • Display Related Posts automatically after the content on your website or in the feed without the need to edit template files
  • Manual install available to select the exact placement of the posts. This will require you to edit your theme files
  • Relevancy matching based on title and/or content of the post
  • Exclude posts from categories from being displayed in the list
  • Exclude display of related posts on Pages
  • Support for WordPress post thumbnails
  • Auto-extract the first image in your post to be displayed as a thumbnail
  • Manually enter the URL of the thumbnail via WordPress meta fields
  • Display excerpts in post. You can select the length of the excerpt in words
  • Output wrapped in CSS class that allows you to style the list
  • Select what tags you would like to wrap the text in

Requirements:

Installing

  1. Download Contextual Related Posts.
  2. Extract the contents of contextual-related-posts.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called contextual-related-posts.
  3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
  4. Goto Settings > Related Posts to configure.

Options:

Below are screenshots of the default options available in the Settings screen

  1. contextual-related-posts screenshot 1

    CRP options in WP-Admin - General Options

  2. contextual-related-posts screenshot 2

    CRP options in WP-Admin - Output Options

If you disable automatic display of related posts please add <?php if(function_exists('echo_ald_crp')) echo_ald_crp(); ?> to your template file where you want the related posts to be displayed.

ChangeLog:

  • 1.7.1
    • Modified: Minor fix for display of thumbnails
  • 1.7
    • Added: New function related posts() that allows you to manually add posts to your theme
    • Added: Support for Video Thumbnails plugin
    • Added: Thumbnail settings now reflect max width and max height instead of fixed width and height
    • Added: Option to display thumbnails before or after the title
    • Added: Option to not display thumbnails instead of the default thumbnail
    • Added: Plugin now uses InnoDB instead of MyISAM if your server is running mySQL v5.6 or higher
    • Modified: Cleaner Settings page interface
    • Modified: Updated FAQ page

Read previous entries in the changelog.

To Do:

  • Select random posts if there are no similar posts
  • Comment below and tell me what you would like to see added to this plugin

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License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Questions or Bugs

Known Bugs

If you have any questions or would like to report any bugs, please see how you can get support.

Languages

The following translations are available:

If you would like to make available a translation for the plugin, please do drop me an email.

Downloads

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Number of downloads: 139,016
Rating: 5/5
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